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Strange Love: Weekend Playlist by Mikrowaves

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week’s installment of this long-running series is brought to us by none other than Mikrowaves, an all-star band featuring a variety of the city’s musical household names coming together for a multi-genre party incorporating blues, Afro-Caribbean sounds, go-go, Latin funk, and much more. The group features musicians from a variety of popular local groups, including Bio Ritmo, The Big Payback, Fear Of Musie. The group is led by Edward Prendergast, who has been making excellent music in quite a few different projects, including The Big East and Amazing Ghost, for over two decades now.

The resulting sound fearlessly leaps and bounds between genres and musical traditions from all around the world, bringing it all together into a potent sonic cocktail you’ll only find right here in Richmond. Much the same can be said about the playlist the group has crafted for us this week, in fact; it’ll take you on a musical trip around the world and keep you dancing all the while. Spice up your weekend with this high-energy soundtrack, then journey to The Dark Room on Saturday, February 8 to see Mikrowaves bring the heat in a live show sure to get you steaming.

Cut loose, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Boogie Island: Weekend Playlist by Citrus City Records

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week we’re bringing you an encore presentation of a playlist made for us last year by Citrus City Records. We’ve been big fans of this label here at RVA Magazine for quite a while, and they’ve got a lot going on so far this year. From the start of their every-second-Sunday residency at The Camel this very Sunday to their big five-year anniversary show happening at Gallery 5 on Friday, January 24 — two weeks from tonight — you’re sure to hear their name around this city a whole lot as 2020 gets rolling.

Their weekend playlist makes clear exactly why; it perfectly displays the excellent taste of label bosses Manuel Lemus and Rene Franco. From tracks by Citrus City leading lights to classic dance floor bangers, this one is sure to light up your weekend and bring a much-needed warmth to this chilly winter.

Drink your juice, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Slow Death: Weekend Playlist by Toward Space

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a totally essential playlist from influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week’s comes to us from the youthful, hyperkinetic Richmond trio known as Toward Space. While it’s been over a year since their LP, Gently With A Chainsaw, graced us all with its rollicking, out-of-control, super-fun dose of garage-punk noise, the band’s been quite active lately, following up the release of their latest video, “Abella,” this fall with a series of US tours, including the upcoming jaunt that will find them trekking through assorted Southern states later this month.

Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a Richmond date for that tour, but while you can’t necessarily see them locally this month, you certainly CAN enjoy the killer playlist they’ve put together for us, full of punk, garage, glam, classic rock, all of which you might predict, and a fair amount of hip hop and country, which might be a little less expected. It all adds up to a great soundtrack for a winter weekend dance party.

Rock with it, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

All-Night Party: Weekend Playlist, NYE 2020 Edition

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you a totally essential playlist from influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week, the whole staff got together to celebrate the end of the year and the decade with a killer mix of party jams to keep your body moving well into the new year. From classic disco, funk, and soul jams to modern hip hop, R&B, and even a few indie dancefloor bangers, we put our heads together to come up with a wide-ranging mix of our favorite party anthems.

Ring in 2020 right, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

Crime Pays: Weekend Playlist by The Flavor Project

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This time around, we’ve got some tunes selected for your enjoyment by The Flavor Project, a wide-ranging ensemble featuring some of the most talented musicians Richmond has produced in recent years. It’s led by bassist and ringleader Gabe Santamaria, and mixes hip hop, funk, soul, and Latin American flavors together into a tasty melange of delicious groove.

The Flavor Project stays busy, and their next live performance will happen only one week from tonight, when they will join The Shangri-Lords for a Christmas-themed musical spectacular at Fuzzy Cactus on Friday, December 20. Mark your calendars now, and fill the time until then jamming on this playlist filled with a ton of talented musicians, including quite a few local ones, delivering the sort of hip hop, soul, jazz, funk, and Latin sounds that keep the Flavor Project so sweet.

Go back for seconds, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.

Music Sponsored By Graduate Richmond

I Was An Eagle: Weekend Playlist by Deau Eyes

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Every Friday night, RVA Mag brings you an essential playlist curated by Virginia’s most influential artists, musicians, and institutions.

This week, we’ve got a set of great tunes from Deau Eyes, the musical project of Richmond-based singer-songwriter Ali Thibodeau. Straddling the line between 90s-style indie/alternative rock and a more classic Americana-influenced rock sound, Deau Eyes has been making quite a stir on the regional music scene for the past couple of years now — and that’s with only one single having been released thus far!

If you listen to this entire playlist, you’ll get a chance to hear that single, “Paper Stickers,” at the very end, but before you get there you’ll get an amazing assortment of powerful songs in all sorts of different genres — folk, soul, indie, psych, and many more. All of it’s sure to keep your chilly December weekend warmed up, though — and isn’t that what’s most important?

Raise your hand, Virginia.

Open this playlist from mobile in your Spotify app HERE.